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Eucyclidae

Eucyclidae

Overview

Eucyclidae Koken, 1896

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Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: The Eucyclidae have large whorls with heavy ornamentation.

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Paleoecology: 

        MOBILITY: Mobile

        FEEDING MODE: Herbivore

        HABITAT: Epifaunal

Sources:

Knight, J. B. et al. 1960. Systematic Descriptions [Archaeogastropoda], in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 351 pp.


Genera of Eucyclidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway